How do you interact with people with Down's Syndrome?

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Like anybody else really.
This is the sort of thing that I didn't used to notice until other people pointed it out to me.

I'm pleased to say, that in my obliviousness, I treated her with the same respect as I would any other human being.

Very, very chatty.
It did get a bit intense at times, so it was quite exhausting for me to keep up and interpret it all.
Some of the emotions were way off the scale, but anyway, she seemed like a decent, understanding sort of person.

Wanted to tell me all about her family and people.
My discussions don't tend to focus on other people so much. If I discuss other people at all, I focus on what other people do and what they have.

She seemed genuinely friendly and helpful though.
It was just a pity that some other people couldn't see this.

Trisomy 21.

There are different genetic variants though.

Am treat DSers as anyone else-with equal respect.
They are probably the best group have been schooled/lived with.
In own experience,DSers are very easy going,as well as with other peoples needs and are caring and helpful,especially as adults.
It does depend on the level of DS though,one DSer [prof/affected] am have lived with would never get far out of the home when staff took him for a walk,he'd get to the end of the street before stripping all of his clothes off,drop to the floor,shove his fist down his throat to make himself vomit blood,he got high rate mobility and a car through motability because of that last year.
Another DSer am have lived with [still live with him now,though am not at the home],is nothing like that at all,he is very autie like himself,he is also very protective of am,staff say he has no 'challenging behavior' at all,though as a teen he stole a milk float,he was banned from a pub when he used to live in an institution as the other resident he went with [an aspie] had challenging behavior and smashed glasses in there,and the same lady made him steal things from a shop once [he ended up in trouble for it,though she isnt a bad person either].
He's one of the nicest people have ever known,and don't get anyone quieter than him either.

...The exact same way you treat anyone else?

I treat them the same way that I would treat typical people. I love special needs people of all kinds. I affectionately call them, including myself Sids. :O)

I ignore them if possible. Their ugliness angers me.

...that's incredibly rude. It's not as if they can help how they look.

I take a similar tack to people like you--except that my ignoring is based more on my love of human decency than on some shallow, eugenicist BS.

I can't help feeling intuitively angry when I see a Downs face. I have the same sensitivity to ugliness that some have to blood.

I'm sure such silly anger can be overridden however. Have you ever tried?
Or try changing your perception on what is "ugly".

I could never view Down's as pretty. The idea sickens me. I'm sorry but I believe certain genes must be erased from the genepool before abominations like those can be born. They are not just a neurological variation, they are misfits, mistakes of nature. I believe AS has some purpose but Down's is just like cancer.

Zoonic, it is probably projection.

...Yeah... okay. Eugenics much. Downies have as much a right to exist as anyone else.
I would call your attitude ridiculous.

Not really. AS is usually associated with higher intelligence while Down's is a retardation and a physical malformity. People who think "everyone who's not NT are all the same and need to group hug" are welcome to join the Down's people for lethal injection, firing squad or collective gas chamber.

Upper class families will start purging the genepool and tailor make babies in just another 100 years time. They will buy perfect genes and fix the rest with nano plastic surgery. Down's people will inevitably cease to exist in all places except for trashy third world ghettoes.

I cannot believe that, on WrongPlanet of all places, eugenics is being so openly promoted.

And we would soon follow. But maybe you're too.... blind to see that.
But off topic, and my anger is starting to make me prone to things that aren't allowed on wrongplanet, so.